From 2e8015e0daf09a2df2c94031a80ecdd12376e0c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wayne Davison Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 01:47:47 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention that less data is sent over the wire when --only-write-batch is used and we're pushing files to a remote system. --- NEWS | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 5a20de6f..70238e4c 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -32,7 +32,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.4: - Added the --only-write-batch=FILE option that may be used (instead of --write-batch=FILE) to create a batch file without doing any - actual updating of the destination. + actual updating of the destination. This allows you to divert all + the file-updating data away from a slow data link (as long as you + are pushing the data to the remote server when creating the batch). - Changed the outputting of "safe" filenames to use backslash-escaped characters rather than '?'s. Any non-printable character is output -- 2.34.1